Meanings
adjectiveHomoean (comparative more Homoean, superlative most Homoean)
comparative more Homoean · superlative most Homoean · alternative Homoian
- lifestylePertaining to the belief established in the fourth century as a middle ground between the homoousian and homoiousian positions, contending merely that the Father is ‘like’ the Son.
Maybe the Homoean formula of Ariminum would have succeeded in uniting the Church if Constantius had not unexpectedly died in his mid-forties in 361.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 216
Origin
- Ancient Greekὅμοιος“like, similar”
- Latinhomoeus
- EnglishHomoean
From Latin homoeus, from Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “like, similar”), + -an.
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